Re: # or dnl for comments?

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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

I see a mix of # and 'dnl' to start comments. Why is this? The more common '#' seems most useful, but I guess there is a reason for using dnl.

The 'dnl' variant ("delete to new-line") seems best when you don't want the comment to appear in the configure script.

Bob
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Thank you.


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